Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America

by Arturo Arias

Book Overview

Central Americans are one of the largest Latino population groups in the United States. Yet, Arturo Arias argues, the cultural production of Central Americans remains little known to North Americans.

In Taking Their Word, Arias complicates notions of the cultural production of Central America, from Mexico in the North to Panama in the South. He charts the literature of Central America's liberation struggles of the 1970s and 1980s,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816648492
• ISBN13: 9780816648498
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"